Hi,

Someone asked about this - in brief, from the ASF's point of view an
iCLA [1] is only required for committers, once they get elected. See
also [2] and [3].

Apart from that I fully agree with this quote from Sam Ruby from [4]:

> ...CLAs are encouraged for all significant contributions, where it is up
> to the project in question to determine significance.  It is entirely
> OK for different projects to have different criteria here.
>
> In all other cases, section 5 of the Apache License, Version 2.0 applies:
>
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#contributions

So I think the NetBeans PMC should clarify the requirements for when
an iCLA is required or desired, and document them, at
http://netbeans.apache.org/participate/index.html probably.

-Bertrand

[1] https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf
[2] https://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html
[3] https://apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html
[4] 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2be07bb021e7499f82ce37291359d8d33b8fa9132e579b58fbeb6cb7@1329398243@%3Clegal-discuss.apache.org%3E

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